Forget digging a hole to China — now China’s the one digging the really deep holes. The Asian nation has begun drilling a more than 32,800-foot-deep hole into the Earth’s crust as part of a so-called ...

This year, the China National Petroleum Corporation started drilling what will be the deepest hole in China and be among the deepest holes in the world, in the north-western province of Xinjiang. An ...

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China’s largest oil producer has started drilling a hole expected to reach a depth of more than 10,000 metres in the country’s remote Taklamakan Desert. The borehole would be among the deepest ever ...